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Maximum likelihood estimation in the birth-and-death process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

N. Keiding*
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen

Abstract

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II Contributed Papers
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Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1974 

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